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A Little Something Different – Let’s Talk About Legal and Compliance, Part 2

By Bradley Leiser, Director of Contracts
Dec 20, 2024

Does Santa Violate Export Control Laws Every December? Before we can answer that highly seasonal question, we should probably start with “What are export control laws anyway?”. Even before that, I...

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A Little Something Different – Let’s Talk About Legal and Compliance, Part 2

Thomas Gresham, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer

The Gyroscopic Effect

The Gyroscopic Effect

By Thomas Gresham, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Mar 6, 2024

This post covers one of the fundamental issues that makes rotordynamics a unique subject: The Gyroscopic Effect. The gyroscopic effect can be observed in the behavior of spinning tops, fidget...

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Critical Speed Maps

Critical Speed Maps

By Thomas Gresham, Senior Mechanical Design Engineer
Aug 16, 2022

This post is about one of the most useful design tools for rotordynamics of turbomachinery: The Undamped Critical Speed Map. A critical speed map can provide a great deal of insight on the potential...

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